A livid President Robert Mugabe yesterday strangled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s remaining breadth in his hotbed, Masvingo Province.
The entire region is on record telling Mugabe’s wife, Grace to her face that she is not wanted in the province. Local Minister Shuvai Ben Mahofa has also been at the helm of the controversies, ZimEye.com revealed early this week.
Mugabe held a no-holds barred meeting with senior Zanu-PF leaders.
The state media reports that a second interface is now to take place in Harare on a date to be announced. Emerging from the indaba at Triangle Country Club at around 5.30pm, and after listening to presentations from a number of leaders for six hours, President Mugabe said further briefings were in order.
Mugabe personally called on the province to restore order in the wake of successionist politics that are detracting attention from the ruling party’s mandate of delivering on socio-economic transformation.
Mugabe has attacked pro-Mnangagwa supporters threatening a bloody Gukurahundi return while at other times saying that his successor will emerge from what he called the people via laid down procedures.
Mugabe told journalists: “We had frank deliberations; people were afforded the chance to say their views, but, unfortunately, we could not exhaust everything. We have planned another meeting for Harare.”
In an interview with the state media, Zanu-PF National Political Commissar  Saviour Kasukuwere said the meeting was part of efforts to rid the party of factional politics.
“We have had a fruitful meeting with the leadership and legislators from Masvingo who had various issues which they felt were dividing the party. Because we are a democratic party that wants to afford everyone a right to respond, we could not come up with a conclusive position.
“As such, the President saw it fit to convene another meeting in Harare with the people we met today so that each party member has a chance to present his/her views. In general, we had a frank meeting where people were free to say or express themselves.”
Gutu Central National Assembly representative and Zanu-PF Chief Whip said: “The meeting went on very well. The President heard the complaints from some Members of Parliament who had raised issues against (some of their seniors in the province). They were complaining against the treatment they are getting from them.
“The President said we will meet in Harare because everything that was raised needs a response and those who presented needed to be responded to.
“As a party we are democratic. Everyone spoke freely and responded freely. I would not want to dwell too much on issues because most of the things we agreed on were confidential.”
Weeks ago, parliamentarians from Masvingo sought audience with President Mugabe to air their concerns on issues affecting the province.
At the last Zanu-PF Politburo meeting on June 8, National Spokesperson Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo told journalists  Kasukuwere had reversed changes made to the Masvingo provincial executive when commissar  Jappy Jaboon, Youth League chair  Nobert Ndaarombe and Women’s League chair Veronica Makonese were demoted by the provincial co-ordinating committee.
Zanu-PF Masvingo province is headed by acting chair  Amasa Nhenjana whose predecessor,  Ezra Chadzamira, is contesting his suspension.  Paradzai Chakona, who was removed from the chair’s post and replaced by  Chadzamira, also claimed his ouster was based on malice.
Zanu-PF romped to victory in all the province’s 26 National Assembly constituencies in 2013 as the party claimed a landslide victory in that year’s national harmonised elections.